Never Leave Me Alone

Patricia 2021-11-29 08:01:20

This is a film I have been looking forward to for a long time, and finally watched it successfully on the first day of 11 years.

The pictures and music are clean and beautiful, and the British scenery and silence are as expected. Out of my personal preference for actors, the role played by Keira was unknowingly more eye-catching in my eyes, and I didn't even pay attention to the love between Kathy and Tommy until Ruth ended on the operating table.

The novel is adapted into a movie, and the status of the original is unshakable. In addition, the author is a Japanese-British, and the writing technique is exquisite. This kind of Japanese novel is the original and the British literary style film is intertwined to create this deeply rooted movie. Never Let Me Go. I don’t know where to start, but the little actor played very well, looking back again and again. Living a boarding life in a classical architecture, there is a calm, calm communication, more of quietly gazing, music pouring out, accompanied by a quiet and calm childhood. The choice of actors and personal feelings show that the childhood Casey and Ruth are very similar to the grown-ups Carey and Kayla.

Ruth seems to me to be a strong and at the same time a fearful girl. They were both instilled in the same values ​​in Heerson. When Teacher Lucy asked Tommy why he didn't get out of the fence to pick up the ball, Ruth told the story with a conviction on her face. She believed these things deeply, so she felt fear in her heart. She must be strong, and when others ask her if she understands the outside world, she said quite a lot without hesitation; she must be strong and scared. When she first came to the village to watch TV with other people, she laughed with others even though she didn’t understand, imitating people on TV. Behaviour... When I am with Tommy, I actually show myself to others, but I am actually afraid of someone and want to pretend to have true love to get a slow donation. So many years later, on the beach, she confessed that she was deliberately obstructing the love between Casey and Tommy because she didn’t want to be alone. At that time, I thought that never let me go might also never leave me alone? Fear of fate, don't want to be unplugged in the waiting and wait, but end life at the time of my choice. She was terrified, and when he saw Tommy again, she was afraid to let him see that she might be embarrassed by her gaunt appearance... Ruth figured out all kinds of contradictions, and gave Casey and his wife the address, and had a similar atonement. The meaning. Having fulfilled her last wish, she also ended her life in the next donation as she thought. After the doctors and nurses took the organs, she was left alone on the operating table. Even though the heartbeat stopped, her eyes Still staring blankly in a certain direction, everything is quiet and everything is cold.

When it was reported that Keira would star in this movie, when I saw the introduction of the corresponding film, the first reaction was naturally The Island. Coincidentally, the two leading actors of the latter, Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, are also my favorite actors. The backgrounds of the two films are very similar, and the island clone talks about how to resist and escape this fate. However, due to the lack of completeness of the story, the director himself is better at action gunfights and many practical issues, so he did not speak well. And this one chose to accept this kind of destiny arrangement plainly, and delve into the emotional and humanity between them.

It is this kind of acceptance that makes the film so calm and moving, it also triggers deep thinking, and makes people feel helpless. This is more like a mapping. For clones, being arranged to donate has become a matter of course. They all accept it calmly. The longing for postponement of donation and application for the position of caregiver are just postponing the time of donation, and there is no way to escape the donation- The fate of the end. As for ordinary people in reality, our lives are so logical and like a fixed pattern, in which we live step by step without knowing it, even if we know it, we don’t react.

In the film, the way they "resist" is just like Ruth did, choosing to end when they donate for the first few times and not be killed. This may be what she thinks of "dying with dignity." As for Tommy, after learning that there was no delay in donation at all, a certain belief that had always supported him to continue to be strong after donation collapsed. He yelled angrily. The moment Casey hugged him from behind, I suddenly felt a great sadness— -There is simply no way to escape this fate! Even the extravagant delay of a few short years will not work. Casey, I think she is the most calm and clearest of the three. The first half of her life may seem lonely, which also makes her more sober in watching. At the end of the film, she was notified to make the first donation one month later. Looking at the scenery behind the fence, she missed those people's time, no longer wishing but nostalgia, and then knew that she could only face the doomed arrangement.

Indeed, for this film, I chose to "recognize my fate". If it is a strong resistance, it would be a clone of the island. It is also because of this choice that it is more beautiful and cruel.

Don't let me go. I don't seem to fully understand this title yet. Don’t let me go, don’t let me alone, maybe this is the common aspiration of three people, in the face of such a powerful destiny arrangement, maybe they are all saying don’t leave me alone, don’t let me go there alone, don’t Push away and face it alone... Maybe this is a warm cry after succumbing to this destiny. It's just my own personal thoughts, please forgive me for right or wrong.

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Never Let Me Go quotes

  • Kathy: It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.

  • [first lines]

    Kathy: My name is Kathy H. I'm 28 years old. I've been a carer for nine years. And I'm good at my job. My patients always do better than expected, and are hardly ever classified as agitated, even if they're about to make a donation. I'm not trying to boast, but I feel a great sense of pride in what we do. Carers and donors have achieved so much. That said, we aren't machines. In the end it wears you down. I suppose that's why I now spend most of my time not looking forwards, but looking back, to The Cottages and Hailsham, and what happened to us there. Me. Tommy. And Ruth.